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We spent a day for self drive game viewing in early December. It was a 1 hr drive to reach the reserve, which provided a real treat. We spotted numerous antelope including red hartebeest and even a few eland. Zebras and wildebeest were plentiful, and we were lucky enough to see giraffe and rhino. A lioness was spotted whilst we...
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dgr_4391, Information Officer at Dinokeng Game Reserve, responded to this review

The are plenty of wild live that can be seen self-drives route. The maps that is provided do not have all the detail but according the person at the gate that helped us they are busy with a new map design. It is a Big 5 wild live area although we only seen the rhino’s from the big 5 group....
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dgr_4391, Information Officer at Dinokeng Game Reserve, responded to this review

Thank you for the positive feedback - that is correct, we are currently printing new maps that are much bigger as well!
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having read the majority of the negative comments,i was very skeptical when we decided to visit Dinokeng and do the self drive route. we where pleasantly surprised. the roads are in good condition and the road map is very easy to follow and understand. i could not see how some people complain about the use of the map.we did not...
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dgr_4391, Information Officer at Dinokeng Game Reserve, responded to this review

Thank you for your positive feedback! It is wonderful that you had such a pleasant visit
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DInokenf is a nice place beause of its landscapes varying greatly. However, the fauna is not very abundant. We spent the night thre and could not see any of the big fives. Maybe unlucky but we drove on and early morning without seeing them. We did see still zebra and giraffes and gnous and waterbucks and impalas and kudus,etc. Still...
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dgr_4391, Information Officer at Dinokeng Game Reserve, responded to this review

This relatively new reserve (established 2011) is great for a day out from Pretoria/Johannesburg, with a vast variety of game, including the Big 5.
We took the self-drive option (R250 per vehicle), and had a great day driving around. we saw the usual impala, zebra, giraffe,waterbuck,hartebeest, warthog but also a large herd of eland, some magnificent male kudu and even...
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I spend 2 nights in the reserve and it was great. Of course the reserve's fauna was not as abundant as I wished, but that feeling of peace and being in touch with nature was a plus. Dinokeng is just outside Pretoria but there I had the impression to be in the deepest jungle, away from cars, noise and pollution.It...
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dgr_4391, Information Officer at Dinokeng Game Reserve, responded to this review

Happy that you enjoyed your stay! Hope to have you here in the near future again! That is what makes the DGR great - you do not have to travel far to be close to nature
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Wow..... they really went all out to treat us to an original African experience. Dinner in the boma with traditional food, a large fire, excellent service and more than ample food in this buffet style evening meal. We had traditional pap with tomato bredie, boerewors, the most amazing steaks, lamb chops, chicken, potato salad, mixed salad, grilled vegetable platter and...
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dgr_4391, Information Officer at Dinokeng Game Reserve, responded to this review

What a great time we had at Dinokeng. The warm welcome, the informative guided tour was amazing. We saw elephant, rhino, buffalo, crock, wildebeast, zebra, lion, antelope and different birds. We can only imagine how amazing it will be if We visited after the rains, We would definitely visit again.

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dgr_4391, Information Officer at Dinokeng Game Reserve, responded to this review

Fantastic place with amazing peolpe. We had 1 morning game drive and three afternoon gamedrive on this site in august and september 2016. What an amazing lodge and very good people, especially thanks to the head ranger, Nico.

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Fantastic to hear that you had a wonderful time at Mongena Game Lodge
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